After Woomera we headed along the road to Roxby Downs. A menacing sky began to build while I photographed the ruins of Phillip Ponds station.
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an increase in his land to 300 acres. William developed a r
Ooo ... like little graves like that. I guess nothing can be as immense as where those good folk have gone.
ReplyDeleteI like the perspective in the first photo with all the bricks crumbling to the front (kind of ...). The second photo is a little bit too moody for my taste ;-)
ReplyDeletemoody for sure..there is such a feeling to impending storms..
ReplyDelete... bit too moody for Martina ... hah!
ReplyDeleteJulie, really ... ;-).
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